Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-25
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OaAILAH, KAN, June %, 1887.

OaAILAH, KAN, June q, 1887.
Oh! Wasp, where is thy sting?
Mr.. Martin started east last Wednesday
Ogallah will not celebrate the Fourth
this year.
Regular services at the school house by
Rev. Walker July 3.
The prairies are at last beginning to
put on their brown coat.
Mr.. Cooks sister-in-law arrived on the
1870 train to-day, from Indiana.
FoR SAIE.-Thirty head Of well-bred
hogs. Q. j. EKLUND,
433-h Ogallah, Kans.
Chas. Cludas has two men at work in
his timber, and they are getting ahead OF
the weeds.
Any person desiring bargain in cattle
should call on or address @. J. Eklund,
OoalIah. Kan. asst
Preaching next Sunday at the school
house, at IL o'clock, by Rev. M. Knapp.
ALI are invited.
The stone, sand and lime are on the
ground to build the foundation to M.
Knapp's house.
D. Countryman tells us he has five
acres of corn measuring six feet, and al
most in full tassel
Judging from the program in the
Castle Rock items, they are going to en-
Joy themselves on the Fourth.
Rev. Jones filed Rev. Walkers ap-
pointment here last Sunday. His text
can be found in Matthew 1871.
Chas. Cludas is doing rushing car
riage-painting business. He has applied
the brush to several Wa-Keeney carriages.
Mr.. Yetter says you may talk about
farming, but if you want to see field of
corn to take look at, Mr.. Clotfelter's,
west Of Ellis, will do.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coffee's little son, after a
severe sickness of eight weeks, is at last
beginning to improve. May he 80 con-
tinue, is our wish.
Last Saturday night G. G. Ridgway
had the bad luck to lose two of his best
work horses. Mr.. Ridgway surely has
the sympathy of many friends.
Joseph LIGHTHOUSE showed the reporter
some potatoes as large as mans fist.
Mr.. dollhouse thinks he will have two
hundred bushels of potatoes this year.
Last Sunday evening brought large
herd of ponies to our view. They were
mostly half-breed ponies, and in fair
order. They were for sale at from sixty
to one hundred dollars each.
People are beginning to repair their
harvesting machines. Although the crop
is light, it is far ahead of no crop, and
pairing to save what they have.
The young men of the town have had
a croquet ground plowed and the sod
carried off. This not only improves the
looks of the ground, but the parties are
enabled to enjoy the game more.
The red rust has taken hold of the
blades of wheat. As the weather is dry,
it has not damaged the wheat yet. In
case it should set in rainy, and the rust
go to the stem, it would surely kill it.
The fireguard plowmen left Ellis this
"wednesday morning, hating in Ogallah
for dinner at 2:3O p. M. The outfit con-
sisted of three three-horse teams and
riding plows, and one two-horse team and
walking pillow.
Last Friday evening a number of the
young folks Of Ogallah were invited to
spend the evening at the depo. After
spending few hours in singing, dancing
and having some instrumental music, the
youngsters returned to their homes at an
early hour, feeling that they had enjoyed
themselves, and hoping the time might
soon come when they could spend another
evening there in the same manner.
Omega, the gentleman you are driving
at, or at least the one I take it to be, is
very steady young man. Although I
would be pleased to accommodate you, I
will have to beg you to excuse me, owing
to my inexperience with "Boston's," or
any other mans, "Best." Will you please
oblige us by seeing that "Boston's Best
does not get hold on him, so as to have
him move his interests from here to the
Wild Horse? for "Ogallah's Best" does
not want to lose him.
Can not our people agree on where to
permanently locate a graveyard? It
looks as though they were able to locate
q piece of ground for that purpose, lay it
off and fence it in. We now have two
started, and are still divided as to the To-
cation. It is some trouble to move a
corpse after everything has decayed. 1t
looks as though the last place is good
enough, and Il is to be hoped that We
will not have neighbor so unkind as to
refuse to cut gate in his fence for the
accommodation of having road to the
graveyard. This is something we have
surely neglected, and some of the graves
of our dead have not been kept in the
best of order. If any one has anything
to say about this, we would like to hear
it, for it is surely time we were doing
something.
A. e. McC.